Preceding Elbow Technique in Fly Casting

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The elbow precedes the fly cast, it goes ahead. If the elbow can't be moved further, the rotary motion starts to prevail. A tracking / follow up motion completes the fly cast. The preceding elbow technique includes a motion, which starts in the upper body followed by the shoulder and the upper arm afterwards. This technique delays the rotary motion to the very end of the fly cast and is useful to achieve a deep deflection, which helps to redistribute the angular momentum / moment of inertia of the fly rod significantly. The redistribution of angular momentum / moment of inertia enables a transfer of some kinetic energy towards the tip of the fly rod. The tracking / follow up motion, which completes the fly cast, helps to reduce the counterflex. Both impacts - the transfer of some kinetic energy towards the tip as well as the reduced counterflex - benefit an efficient power minimized fly cast. Therefore the preceding elbow technique allows to cast efficiently.
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Further explanations about the redistribution of angular momentum could be watched here:
vimeo.com/221011910 and
vimeo.com/187846392 and
vimeo.com/148550108

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